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Ice shelves are not as sexy as polar bears. |
DUBLIN (Geared Up Blog) - A satellite image from NASA shows the Ayles Ice Shelf (center) breaking off Canada’s Ellesmere Island in the Arctic on August 13, 2005.
The National Geographic have announced today that the whole floating island only 800km from the North Pole has disintegrated.
“It’s like a cruise missile came down and hit the ice shelf,” Vincent said. “It no longer exists.”
The Ayles Ice Shelf was 25.5-square-miles (66-square-kilometers). The breakup was spotted on satellite photos shortly after it occurred, but scientists have held back until now to make an announcement. “We’ve spent the last year reconstructing exactly what happened,” said Luke Copland, a geographer with the University of Ottawa in Ontario, Canada.
Sixteen months of study led Copland and colleagues to the conclusion that several factors were at work, mostly related to global warming. Arctic ice shelves are “not as sexy as polar bears,” Copland said.
Image courtesy AP/NASA/Handout
Latest Comments (1):
Do you think as we move through this climate chaos cycle, that both humans and bears will be forced to become year ’round “extreme” campers?
Imagine a camping expedition that never ends?
http://heartspring.net/global_warming_greenhouse.html
http://byexample.com - Life “off the grid”
http://www.permaculture.org - Greening the Desert!
Btw, nice site. I’ll be back to ckeck out more! I’ve been mountain biking in south west Pennsylvania for the last couple of years.
Cheers,
Mark
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